Mary Magdelene, Religious woman or prostitute? |
| *paul murphy* |
 May 2 2005, 08:16 AM
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Religious woman but this is a contreversial subject.
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May 2 2005, 12:23 PM
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 wanderlust personified.  Group: Official Designer Posts: 7,515 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 797 |
She was a prostitute to who turned away from her immoral way of living and became a religious woman.
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May 2 2005, 01:53 PM
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 Another ditch in the road... you keep moving Group: Member Posts: 6,281 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 85,152 |
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what roxy said... she recognized jesus as the messiah, and followed him, thus repenting her sins |
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May 2 2005, 03:29 PM
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Shouldn't this be in debate?
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May 2 2005, 03:55 PM
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 Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
what's there to debate about?
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May 2 2005, 05:17 PM
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 Class of 2005!!! Group: Member Posts: 1,132 Joined: Jan 2005 Member No: 93,080 |
i think its more of an opinion topic. I agree with James and Roxy.
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May 2 2005, 05:18 PM
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Senior Member Group: Member Posts: 1,746 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 52,931 |
ohh so you're paul murphy. i have heard much about you. :]
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May 2 2005, 05:31 PM
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 I have no life Group: Member Posts: 1,119 Joined: Nov 2004 Member No: 66,675 |
^lol yea about time.......
Well my opinion is that she was a prostitute who discovered Jesus...so then she started her life over... |
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May 3 2005, 11:14 PM
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 You can't keep running from what you're trying to find. Group: Official Member Posts: 5,030 Joined: Oct 2004 Member No: 54,096 |
like everyone else said... she was a prostitute before she found jesus and repented. and what's with all those other spam topics?
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May 3 2005, 11:16 PM
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Ha ha, I just finished reading the Da Vince Code.
 (I don't want to spoil it for you.... so this is just a spoiler warning....) I think... she is the Holy Grail.
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May 3 2005, 11:21 PM
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gigi =p Group: Member Posts: 3,679 Joined: Aug 2004 Member No: 41,206 |
^ Haha, you just spoiled the whole thing for everyone, but oh well.
Yeah, in the Da Vinci Code, Mary Magdalene is the Holy Grail. You'd have to read the book to understand that. Mind you, that novel is full of crap. |
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May 3 2005, 11:27 PM
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QUOTE(barelyy_coherent @ May 3 2005, 9:21 PM) ^ Haha, you just spoiled the whole thing for everyone, but oh well. Yeah, in the Da Vinci Code, Mary Magdalene is the Holy Grail. You'd have to read the book to understand that. Mind you, that novel is full of crap.  Haa ha, I couldn't resist the urge to post it!  It might have been full of crap, but it was interesting to read nonetheless. 
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May 3 2005, 11:32 PM
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 Amberific. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,913 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,772 |
Actually, Mary Magdalene wasn't a prostitute, at least they never mention it explicitly. She's gotten a bad rap because her story just so happens to follow that of a repentent whore.
QUOTE(wikipedia.org) Tradition as early as the 3rd century identified as Mary Magdalene the woman who was a sinner in Luke 7:36-50:
" 37 And, behold, a woman in the city, which was a sinner, when she knew that Jesus sat at meat in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster box of ointment, 38 And stood at his feet behind him weeping, and began to wash his feet with tears, and did wipe them with the hairs of her head, and kissed his feet, and anointed them with the ointment." Though there is no connection made in the New Testament, nor is the woman in the house of the Pharisee given a name, the idea that Mary was "the woman who was a sinner", or that she was unchaste [read: whore], was developed by the Patristic writers of the 3rd and 4th centuries. This idea is rejected by most Protestants. Catholics, on the other hand, consider this one person to be, not only the sinner of Luke 7:36-50 but also Mary of Bethany, the sister of Martha and the resurrected Lazarus (Luke 10:38-42 and John 1:10); although the Roman Catholic Church withdrew from this linkage at the Second Vatican Council (1969) it survives strongly in folk Catholicism. |
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May 4 2005, 03:59 AM
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 boo Group: Member Posts: 5,512 Joined: Dec 2004 Member No: 71,765 |
Roxanne took the words out of me. =]
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May 4 2005, 05:58 AM
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 say maydayism. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,447 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 26,344 |
Actually, what most of the people above said sums up what I wanted to say.
Sometimes prostitutes can be religious too, because some of them are being forced to become prostitutes, not as their own will. |
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May 4 2005, 07:26 PM
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"In popular Christian tradition Mary Magdalene is a prostitute who finds redemption by apprenticing herself to Jesus. And she figures most noticeably in the Fourth Gospel, as being present on the crucifixion of Jesus, and where she is the first person to behold Jesus after the Resurrection. Mary Magdalene is not, at any point in any of the Gospels, said to be a prostitute. When she is first mentioned in the Gospel of Luke, she is described as a woman 'out of whom went seven devils'. It is generally assumed that this phrase refers to a species of exorcism on Jesus' part, implying the Magdalene was possessed. But the phrase may equally refer to some sort of conversion and/or ritual initiation."
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May 4 2005, 08:51 PM
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 dripping destruction Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,282 Joined: Jun 2004 Member No: 21,929 |
she's not who the bible says she is.
because the bible was edited. tons. |
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May 4 2005, 09:01 PM
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 I'M THE NASTY YELLOW TOOTH[that.looks.like.corn] Group: Member Posts: 104 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 101,030 |
I'm with most of you, she was a prosititute then repented. 'Mazing how God can forgive us.
I don't think the Bible was edited. Whatever. If it was it was probably for grammatical reasons. 
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May 4 2005, 10:35 PM
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 come and get me! Group: Member Posts: 190 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 113,600 |
QUOTE(xquizit @ May 3 2005, 1:23 AM) She was a prostitute to who turned away from her immoral way of living and became a religious woman. i agree... she changed her life... and turn into a religeous woman.. |
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May 4 2005, 10:47 PM
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Quand j'étais jeune... Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 6,826 Joined: Jan 2004 Member No: 1,272 |
QUOTE(pinkd0tcom @ May 4 2005, 9:01 PM) I don't think the Bible was edited. Whatever. If it was it was probably for grammatical reasons. It was edited a number of times. It's a fact. |
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May 5 2005, 05:53 PM
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 i'm susan Group: Official Member Posts: 13,875 Joined: Feb 2004 Member No: 5,029 |
WOW im confused... who the heck is she? is she the girl who birth to Jesus? >.<; and i hear "out of the devils" im very confused. ok time to hit the google. Oh nevermind...
She was an important disciple and witness for Jesus. Ah I see. But there's no more than other historical information about her. That's sad... A new novel forces people to confront a biblical puzzle. Was Mary Magdalene Mrs. Jesus? WHAT?!?!? LOL what kind of question is that? does that mean they were in love... impossible. Mary Magdalene is mentioned in the Gospels as being among the women of Galilee who followed Jesus and His disciples, and who was present at His Crucifixion and Burial, and who went to the tomb on Easter Sunday to annoint His body. She was the first to see the Risen Lord, and to announce His Resurrection to the apostles. Accordingly, she is referred to in early Christian writings as "the apostle to the apostles." oh I see again. She's the girl who saw the angeles.... Ah she's the girl who washed Jesus feet with her hair and her tears!! Ah that's her name? oops.... lol I forgot >.<;; yeah I'm lacking from reading the bible which is not good *cough* Jesus had cast out "seven demons" from her seven?!?!?!?!?! wow...... that's scary >.<;;;;;;;;; seven demons in one body. how is that possible, then she would've been posessed. but i dont think they mentioned that in the bible.. i dont remember reading that stuff. I guess she would be a prostitute after reading azn_pnoy_boi's comment. I mean she was possessed. So i guess she was a prostitute. I wonder why they had to edit a lot of words in the bible.. I wish they didn't missed out on anything. |
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